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Leucobrephos brephoides
Leucobrephos brephoides (Scarce Infant Moth). My camera at the time did not have its date and time settings activated but I saw this moth on March 30, 2003. It was a cold day with temperatures between 30 and 40 degrees F. Snow was still on the ground in many places and the marsh where this moth was resting was beginning to flood.
Not a common moth species and I have not seen it since even though I make efforts each spring to find it. Larval food plants include willows (Salix) and poplars (Populus) both of which are abundant here. Also birch (Betula) and alder (Alnus). It is thought the larvae feed on the catkins of these species in their early instar stages.
The Life-history of Leucobrephos brephoides Walk. (Lepidoptera). Arthur Gibson and Norman Criddle (1916). The Canadian Entomologist Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 133-138.
http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=6257
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucobrephos_brephoides
Leucobrephos brephoides, the scarce infant moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae.
The wingspan is about 29 mm.
